It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds […] However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

Benjamín likes books, surfing… the www and daydreaming.

Liz Ing-Simmons | liz.ing-simmons@mpi-muenster.mpg.deFollow @liz__isLiz studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK, and then did a Masters in Systems Biology at the same university, during which she was introduced to the power of computational biology. During her PhD at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre (now MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences), Liz investigated the role of the cohesin complex in genome organisation and its effects on gene regulation by enhancers. She joined the lab in March 2017 to work on genome organisation in Drosophila.

Liz likes R, reproducibility, cooking, and tea. When not thinking about science she is probably thinking about food.

Kai is a computational biologist by training. He studied biophysics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and completed his Master studies in bioinformatics at the University of Potsdam. He obtained his PhD in Molecular Biology, with a focus on computational biology, from the University of Cambridge, where he investigated the role of the three-dimensional network of DNA-DNA contacts in eukaryotic nuclei on diverse biological processes. Currently, Kai is expanding his analyses to a larger number of organisms, datasets, and tools.

Science is made up of so many many things that appear obvious after they are explained.

Kai likes spending time with his family, listening to audiobooks, and coding (if there is still time).